Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels

Marta Gaia Sperandii; Manuele Bazzichetto; Lars Götzenberger; Marco Moretti; Rafael Achury; Nico Blüthgen; Markus Fischer; Norbert Hölzel; Valentin H. Klaus; Till Kleinebecker; Felix Neff; Daniel Prati; Ralph Bolliger; Sebastian Seibold; Nadja K. Simons; Michael Staab; Wolfgang W. Weisser; Francesco de Bello; Martin M. Gossner

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Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels

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Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels. / Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Bazzichetto, Manuele; Götzenberger, Lars et al.
In: Science Advances, Vol. 11, No. 4, eadp6445, 24.01.2025.

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Sperandii, MG, Bazzichetto, M, Götzenberger, L, Moretti, M, Achury, R, Blüthgen, N, Fischer, M, Hölzel, N, Klaus, VH, Kleinebecker, T, Neff, F, Prati, D, Bolliger, R, Seibold, S, Simons, NK, Staab, M, Weisser, WW, de Bello, F & Gossner, MM 2025, 'Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels', Science Advances, vol. 11, no. 4, eadp6445. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp6445

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Sperandii, M. G., Bazzichetto, M., Götzenberger, L., Moretti, M., Achury, R., Blüthgen, N., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V. H., Kleinebecker, T., Neff, F., Prati, D., Bolliger, R., Seibold, S., Simons, N. K., Staab, M., Weisser, W. W., de Bello, F., & Gossner, M. M. (2025). Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels. Science Advances, 11(4), Article eadp6445. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp6445

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Sperandii MG, Bazzichetto M, Götzenberger L, Moretti M, Achury R, Blüthgen N et al. Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels. Science Advances. 2025 Jan 24;11(4):eadp6445. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adp6445

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title = "Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels",

abstract = "Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.",

keywords = "Biology, Ecosystems Research",

author = "Sperandii, {Marta Gaia} and Manuele Bazzichetto and Lars G{\"o}tzenberger and Marco Moretti and Rafael Achury and Nico Bl{\"u}thgen and Markus Fischer and Norbert H{\"o}lzel and Klaus, {Valentin H.} and Till Kleinebecker and Felix Neff and Daniel Prati and Ralph Bolliger and Sebastian Seibold and Simons, {Nadja K.} and Michael Staab and Weisser, {Wolfgang W.} and {de Bello}, Francesco and Gossner, {Martin M.}",

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AU - Sperandii, Marta Gaia

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AU - Götzenberger, Lars

AU - Moretti, Marco

AU - Achury, Rafael

AU - Blüthgen, Nico

AU - Fischer, Markus

AU - Hölzel, Norbert

AU - Klaus, Valentin H.

AU - Kleinebecker, Till

AU - Neff, Felix

AU - Prati, Daniel

AU - Bolliger, Ralph

AU - Seibold, Sebastian

AU - Simons, Nadja K.

AU - Staab, Michael

AU - Weisser, Wolfgang W.

AU - de Bello, Francesco

AU - Gossner, Martin M.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).

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N2 - Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.

AB - Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.

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